Size:  24.5 cm tall, width of base 18 cm.

Condition: Excellent condition, no chips cracks or restoration. Some light clean crazing to the glaze as expected.

This lovely and sturdy jug by Paul Young is, like most of his work, made in the style and technique of the traditional English slipware of the 17th to 19th centuries.  The jug is well centred around a wide base and has a generous handle with a nice thumb hold, sprigged decoration and it is finished in coloured glazes over a white slip and a lovely overall honey coloured tin glaze. There are three stilt marks on the base from the kiln stilts on which it was fired. It has no signature or stamp. A very similar jug is pictured on Paul Young's website.

Paul trained at Sheffield and Chesterfield College of Art in the late 1970s - early 80s and currently works from a Victorian Railway Station in Warwickshire. His work is widely known and like that of the early potters he admires, of whom he says, "Appearing both naive and sophisticated in its execution, their work has a charm and honesty combined with the sheer joy of just being alive."